Kamaly, Hossein

Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAM

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Summary: Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Hirsi Ali

Nomani, Asra Q.

Summary: "Wall Street Journal" correspondent Asra Nomani chronicles the experiences she had while accompanying other Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.352 NOM

Summary: Islam has more than 1.2 billion adherents worldwide. Today, it is imperative that the West understand Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, what Muslims believe, their practices and history. This set of twelve thirty-minute lectures present an exploration of Islamic law, mysticism, civilization, and Muslim life and society through the ages. Examines the "struggle for the soul of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 GRE

Esposito, John L.

Summary: Examines Islam in a series of 12 lectures.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 297 ESP